The Last Game was first scheduled for April 2019. To allow a proper preparation and conduct of the event with the intended strong outcome, and to take full advantage of the partnerships and linkages established, UN Environment had to annul the 2019 event. Instead, together with our polar patron Slava Fetisov we are now looking into moving the event by one year and using the year 2019 for a…

The first Great Lakes Circular Economy Forum will take place in Toronto from 25-26 June 2019 at the Toronto Reference Library. Co-convened by UN Environment North America, the City of Toronto and the Council of the Great Lakes Region, the Forum is an invitation-only, bi-national dialogue on promoting circular economy in the Great Lakes region.

On 10 May 2018, the UN General Assembly (the Assembly) adopted, resolution 72/277 entitled “Towards a Global Pact for the Environment”.

According to the resolution’s text, the Assembly decided to establish an ad hoc open‑ended working group to consider a technical and evidence-based report that identifies and assesses possible gaps in international environmental law and environment-…

Between 2014 and 2018, the Chemicals and Health Branch of the United Nations Environment Programme implemented and executed the project “Development of a Plan for Global Monitoring of Human Exposure to and Environmental Concentrations of Mercury” funded by the Global Environment Facility.

On 2 and 3 May, UN Environment will be partnering to launch a Global Initiative to Advance Children’s Right to a Healthy Environment. The initiative will kick off in Bogota, Colombia at a workshop that will bring together 40 experts and 25 children and young people from across Latin America and Caribbean to discuss key environmental issues facing children in the region, and to promote…

On 30 April at 13:00 Geneva time, UN Environment will be hosting a webinar on Environmental Impact Assessments (register here). This Executive Webinar introduces the goals and structure of environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for upstream oil and gas activities, identifying and describing the potential impacts to the environment and socio-economic setting, relevant mitigation and monitoring…

Innovative solutions for environmental challenges and sustainable consumption and production.

The theme Innovative solutions, covering policies, financing, technologies, partnerships and multistakeholder processes – are key both to solving many environmental challenges, as well as to accelerating sustainable development more…

Close to forty partners of the Partnership for Clean and Vehicles (PCFV) met in Paris, France on 5&6 March 2019 to review Partnership’s progress in promoting cleaner fuels and vehicles in middle and low-income countries. The meeting which was hosted by UN Environment brought together partners from the oil and vehicle industry, non-governmental organizations, academia, and developed and…